joining us our political panel, the washington post, ed keith and lin sweet and chief political correspondent, byron. byron, your thoughts on meeting. >> that's happening on wednesday. on tuesday the day before he's meeting with labor leaders, he's meeting with afscme, afl-cio and other bigger supporters. and that's before he gets to the business leaders. as far as the business leaders are concerned, it's all really big business, general electric,del, wal-mart, not the small businesses. the republicans say the small businesses will be hurt if taxes on the highest bracket goes up. >> this is a two-day lobbying effort by the white house and by obama to put pressure on -- put pressure on members of congress to pass his tax and deficit spending legislation. that's really what this is about. there are meetings all the time. you know, through the years in the white house with these groups. this one, though, is specific. the progressive and labor organizations that obama is going to meet with tomorrow are about to launch a campaign, ads, whole thing, to put pressure on democrats and on obama to not